Qasim Sultana

Qasim Sultana (14 July 1939-17 July 1982) was a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader.

Biography
Qasim Sultana was born in Bayt Lid in Mandatory Palestine (now in northern West Bank) to a Sunni Muslim family. Sultana's family lived in Jordan during the Israeli War of Independence, so he did not have to worry about the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) armed forces of Israel taking over his home. Qasim Sultana became involved with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964 shortly after its founding by Yasser Arafat and was the perpetrator of heinous crimes against Jewish civilians in settlements in the West Bank and in Israel itself. In 1973 he fled to Lebanon and lived in the Ghaziyeh refugee camp of Sidon, where he was able to escape Israel's Mossad intelligence agency during Operation Wrath of God. Sultana planned artillery bombardments of Israeli villages in the north, and the Palestinian attacks on Israel led to Israel's invasion of Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. Sultana was killed in Beirut when Israeli artillery fire destroyed the building in which he was hiding.